ANTLER
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ANTLER IN ONE LINE:
Antler is the world's most active early-stage investor, backing exceptional people from inception to global scale.
BOILERPLATE:
Antler is where founders come to go further, faster. Antler is the world’s most active early-stage investor and most active investor into AI startups globally, backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey—and supporting them from inception to scale. Across more than 25 cities worldwide—including New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Dubai, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney—the firm helps founders remove the barriers to building by connecting them with world-class peers, validating business models, and providing initial capital. To date, Antler has backed more than 2,500 startups globally, including five unicorns: Airalo, Lovable, Pixverse, Dream and micro1. For founders who go on to build breakout companies, Antler Elevate—the $285M emerging growth fund—invests beyond the early stages, managed through offices in London, Singapore, New York and San Francisco.
PRESS CONTACT AND RESOURCES:
For press enquiries, contact
Rike Döpp Bergérus, VP Global Communications:
press@antler.co, WhatsApp
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Fast facts
$26B
Total portfolio value
2500+
Portfolio companies
12,000+
Founders supported
2018
First investment made
33%
Portfolio companies with woman co-founders
100+
Nationalities represented in the portfolio
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Press coverage about Antler and our portfolio
June 13, 2023
Bloomberg IC Your Trade: The startup factory
June 8, 2023
AFR: Wealthy families are backing start-up factory Antler with over $200m
June 7, 2023
TechCrunch: Antler branches out from pre-seed to later-stage investing with $285M fund
May 22, 2023
Forbes: Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard Classmate Who Is Trying To Build A Global Startup Factory
January 12, 2023
Entrepreneur: Femtech Startup Salad Raises $270,000 In Pre-Seed Funding
December 12, 2022
AFR: Ex-KPMG, Atlassian employees launch carbon management start-up (Pathzero)
November 15, 2022
Forbes India: Early to bet & early to rise: How Antler is changing early-stage investing in India
November 9, 2022
Forbes: 8 Reasons Why Now May Be The Best Time To Build A Company—by Magnus Grimeland
October 9, 2022
AFR: VC firm Antler sounds investors for new fund; $60m raise tipped
September 15, 2022
Forbes: Antler India—Finding Steve Wozniaks for every Steve Jobs
August 8, 2022
TechCrunch: 4 principles for building an MVP even if you can’t write a single line of code—by Magnus Grimeland
July 17, 2022
Forbes: Five Strategies To Land A Deal Before You Launch


